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Monday, March 30, 2015

[Yasmin_discussions] Light is My Business

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I just got a post from Pierre Alain Hubert, one of the worlds foremostfireworks artists.

He has created among other things the worlds smallest fireworksthat we jokingly call 'nano fireworks' although they are not nano

about 2015 the year of light who is intersted by discussing aboutFireworks as an art formI m a world known fireworks 'specialistso light is my businessartist, scientist, specialist of large displays all over the world ,and working too on millimetric sources of sparksfriend of roger Malina throught IMERAI will be very glad to participate at this year of light program in a teamfeel free to look at my web site and to contact melooking forward for your responseall the bestpierre alain hubert france

Small is Beautiful: NANO-FIREWORKS?Roger Malina, 31 March 2010 (created 31 March 2010)Pierre-Alain Hubert is one of the worlds foremost fireworks artistsknown internationally:http://www.pyrohubert.com/

I first met him when we were planning projects for the InternationalYear of Physics in France and he had a proposal to create fireworkswhose display structures were similar to those of showers of particlescreated in particle accelerators like those being created at the LHCat CERN as we speak. He was fascinated about the question of the scaleof phenomena and in particular if you could tell the scale of aphenomenon from a photograph. What structures are particular toparticular scales of phenomena? This is a question that has a largeliterature, with seminal works such as Darcy Wentworth Thomson's "OnGrowth and Form" with recent discussions triggered by Mandelbrot'swork on fractals.

Pierre-Alain Hubert recently met nano scientist Jim Gimzewski during aresidency at IMERA and the question came up of whether one could makenano-fireworks, or at what scale does explosif release becomeimpossible. Hubert went to work and has now created a series of thesmallest fireworks ever created. You can hear him describe them andsee the displays at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a66zRsDOp7I

These are perhaps not yet nano but certainly micro. In the u-tubevideo he again discusses the question of structure and scale. He isalso intrigued by the coincidence that the structure of the displaysof his nano fireworks reminds him of what he imagines to be the firingof neurons. Hubert and Gimzewski plan to continue their collaborationand I would be interested in other art-science work that investigatesthe question of scale and structure.

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